Previously Funded

Round 3, 2014

High Toughness Ceramics for Applications in Cutting and Drilling Tools

Simon Friedman, UMKC

Building Better Insulin

George Gokel, UMSL

Enhancing Antibiotic Potency and Ameliorating Drug Resistance

Carl Bassi, Michael Howe, & Wayne Garver, UMSL

Optimization of a Qualitative Screening Tool for Identification of Visual Disorders

Mohammad Ghasr & Reza Zoughi, Missouri S&T

Development of 3D Real-Time Millimeter-Wave Imaging System

Lynda Bonewald & Kathleen Kilway, UMKC

Curing Bone Infection While Stabilizing Implants

John Kevern & Megan Hart, UMKC

Enhanced Pervious Concrete as a Permeable Reactive Barrier Technology

Haitao Li & Ceki Halmen, UMSL

A Resource Distribution Tool Construction Projects

Round 2, 2013

The UM System received over 85 applications for the second round of the Intellectual Property FastTrack Funding Program. Of those applicants, 13 were awarded FastTrack II awards. Those recipients include:

Marco Brotto, UMKC

Prototyping of a mobile electronic sensing device for the diagnosis of myocardial infarcts

A Novel, Inexpensive Cryopreservation System for Stable -80 Degree C Storage of Human and Animal Model Germplasm and Stem Cells

Edward Jarka, UMSL

A Hand-held Meibomian Gland Warmer and Expressor

Raghuraman Kannan, MU

Scale Up for Production of an MU Companion Diagnostic

John Kevern, UMKC

Application of Drinking Water Treatment Waste As Internal Curing for Concrete

George Kracke, MU

Novel Boron Containing Analgesics

Yinfa Ma, Missouri S&T

Prototype Construction of a P-scan Instrument for Early Cancer Diagnosis

Michael Nichols, UMSL

Development and Testing of an Exndotoxin Antagonist Compound

Hai Xiao, Missouri S&T

Implementation and Characterization of an Optical Carrier Based Microwave Interferometric Sensing System for Precommercialization and Customer Demonstration

Researchers funded in 2008

In 2008, the UM Office of Research and Economic Development piloted a one-time funding program designed to enhance the university's research discoveries by moving them further down the commercialization pipeline.

Anthony Caruso

Commercialization of Direct Conversion Betavoltaic Batteries

$50,000

Reza Derakhshani

An Intergrated Platform for a new Biometric Identification System based on Ocular Surface Vasculature

Commercialization of a Novel System and Method for Linking an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with Online Treatment Algorithms and an Online Medical Calculator

$50,000

Jeffrey Phillips

Resolution of Atypical Symptoms of GERD

$49,150

William Stoecker

CaDetect IP to Market Software Development

$50,000

John Viator

Photoacoustic Detection of Circulating Melanoma Cells in Blood

$49,500

Michael Wang

Development of a Universal Cancer Detection Kit by Specific DNA Methylation Biomarkers

$49,919

Zhi Xu

New Optical Device for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Detection

$50,000

Reza Zoughi

Multifunctional Portable Microwave Vector Network Analyzer

$50,000

Multi-purpose Millimeter Wave Imaging System (WAND)

$50,000

To date, this funding program has contributed significantly to the development and commercialization of some existing technologies in such areas as cancer detection, blood glucose monitoring, environmental protection, and vector signal measurement.